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[Jeremy Bícha <2083705@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthias, I spoke to you in person in Frankfurt in early November 2024 about this issue. At your request, I emailed you later in November about it with the subject line "reconsider bash sourcing for non-login interactive shells". I never heard back from you. I replied to the email in January. When I replied in May,  I wrote
"I'm letting you know that I plan to upload this bash change to the
Ubuntu questing package within a few days because it is needed for
ptyxis which is a Desktop Roadmap item for questing."

I am appreciative of the 26 (!!) years you have spent maintaining bash
for Debian and later Ubuntu. However, respectfully, you are no longer
the owner of the bash package for Ubuntu. It is owned by the Debcrafters
team which I am on. You do not have the authority to interfere with a
Roadmap item for Ubuntu Desktop.

I understand the sensitivity here which I why I spent so much time
trying to talk to you about this first.

I also informed you on May 30 in the Ubuntu Development Matrix channel
that the Ubuntu bash package was going to be maintained with git-ubuntu
from now on but your upload today did not use git-ubuntu.

Please let us know if you have an alternate working solution, but Debian
#675008 has been causing trouble for Ubuntu Desktop for a decade. It
only hasn't been noticeable because Ubuntu Desktop and Debian have been
carrying a workaround patch for gnome-terminal since at least 2015. The
workaround patch does not have the full functionality that is provided
by allowing this bash change.

References
==========
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/5.2.37-2ubuntu3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/5.2.37-2ubuntu2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/4.3-7ubuntu3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/4.3-7ubuntu2

** Also affects: bash (Debian) via
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=675008
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2083705

Title:
  New tabs don't open in current working directory

Status in bash package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in bash package in Debian:
  New
Status in ptyxis package in Debian:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  In GNOME Terminal, opening a new tab opens the new tab using the same
  working directory as the current tab.

  This only works because we added a distro patch to GNOME Terminal in
  2013. VTE prefers to use /etc/bashrc.d/ but Debian and Ubuntu's bash
  don't support that feature currently.

  Workaround
  ==========
  You can add this line to your ~/.bashrc

  source /etc/profile.d/vte-2.91.sh

  This will enable this feature to work in all VTE apps: Ptyxis, GNOME
  Console, etc.

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